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Irish pip Saints at the postA penalty two minutes from time by Tom Homer gave London Irish their first Aviva Premiership win of the season.ShareNorthampton were left to feel a sense of grievance as there seemed to be an Irish knock-on as Jonathan Joseph u

Ruthless Gloucester give Warriors a reality checkJ onny May and Tom Voyce crossed for tries as Gloucester picked up their first win of the Aviva Premiership Rugby season with a comfortable 29-8 victory over Worcester at Kingsholm.----tagsGloucester Warrio

Pete Richards prepares us for another hectic weekend of Premiership Rugby and reflects on the 2ns round results. This week Pete meets Conor O'Shea, the man formerly known as Caesar, and goes further behind the scens at Harlequins...

Backs-to-the-wall Warriors give Sixways a special nightSaracens' hopes of finishing top of the Aviva Premiership Rugby table were dealt a bitter blow when Worcester pulled off an astonishing 16-11 win at Sixways. In the first half Sarries held an 8-0 lead

Two tries from Thomas Waldrom helped Leicester Tigers leapfrog Northampton into third place in the Aviva Premiership Rugby table after a comfortable home win over struggling Newcastle. With Leicester wrapping up the four-try bonus point just two minutes i

Bath pip Chiefs in penalty battleBath completed an Aviva Premiership Rugby double over West Country rivals Exeter in a game where all the points came through penalties at Sandy Park. It was a typical derby clash with little between the teams but the outco

Fly-half Ignacio Mieres kicked five penalties to give Exeter a hard-fought win at Adams Park to pile on the misery for relegation-threatened Wasps. Despite dominating possession for long periods of the match, the home side just could not break through the

Leicester skipper Geordan Murphy ended Saracens' unbeaten home record with a sensational drop-goal with the last kick of a gripping Aviva Premiership Rugby game. Sarries were heading for victory at Vicarage Road when Tigers launched an astonishing 26-phas

Stephen Myler kicked seven penalties as Northampton defeated Sale in a bruising contest at Franklin's Gardens. Sale were the more enterprising side, scoring the only try of the game, but ill-discipline which saw them lose two players to the sin-bin ultima

The combined might of Nick Evans' boot and the Harlequins pack helped the Aviva Premiership Rugby leaders maintain their impressive season to date by edging out Worcester 16-14 at The Stoop. A pre-match downpour in south-west London reduced the game to a

Ryan Shortland's interception try handed Newcastle a relegation lifeline as they scrambled to victory over London Irish at Kingston Park.The Falcons came back from 10-6 down at half-time to win with 14 men after the sending-off of lock Adriaan Fondse in t

Teenager Ryan Mills was the hero as his penalty gave Gloucester victory at The Rec to complete the double over local rivals Bath. The 19-year-old England Under-20 cap, on as a replacement, calmly slotted the crucial three-pointer with 10 minutes to play o

Geordan Murphy lifted the LV= Cup at Worcester's Sixways stadium as Leicester won the battle of the East Midlands against Northampton 26-14 to claim the first silverware of the English club rugby season and a place in the Heineken Cup. The match was settl